Degrees
LLM, Wayne State University
JD, Wayne State University
BS, University of Detroit
Licenses and Certifications
CPA – Certified Public Accountant
ATT – Licensed Attorney
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LLM, Wayne State University
JD, Wayne State University
BS, University of Detroit
CPA – Certified Public Accountant
ATT – Licensed Attorney
Richard Davidson is an attorney/C.P.A. who possesses a consistent track record of using accounting and tax expertise, analytical skills, and sound business judgment while working with accounting, finance, legal, and tax professionals to devise and implement tax minimization and audit resolution strategies.
Since becoming a full-time professor at Walsh in 2013, Davidson has demonstrated the ability to successfully communicate tax technical concepts in a classroom environment while establishing effective teaching relationships with students and collaborative working relationships with faculty and administration colleagues.
Phone:248-679-1407
BBA, University of Michigan – Dearborn
MST, Walsh College
CMA – Certified Management Accountant
CPA – Certified Public Accountant
CIA – Certified Internal Auditor
John Alfonsi is Managing Director of Cendrowski Corporate Advisors (CCA) and shareholder of Cendrowski Selecky Professional Corporation. He has provided business valuation, litigation support, forensic accounting, and tax consulting services to clients for more than 25 years.
Mr. Alfonsi specializes in;
He has helped clients develop innovative tax structures to minimize their federal, state, and local tax burdens. Together with other CCA team members, John has established an excellent reputation with the IRS and has served as an advocate for clients in the event of tax controversy.
With respect to litigation support activities, John is a recognized business valuation and economic damages expert, and has presented expert witness testimony in these areas on numerous occasions. Among other engagements, he has provided business valuation services for M&A transactions, corporate divestitures, marital dissolutions, joint ventures, estate and gift tax matters, and has analyzed economic damages for both plaintiffs and defendants. On each engagement, John uses his training as a forensic accountant to formulate comprehensive and understandable analyses.
With respect to his forensic accounting expertise, John has assisted attorneys throughout all phases of investigations from pre-case assessment through expert witness testimony. Among other engagements, John has provided forensic accounting services related to procurement reviews, tenant/landlord lease verification, and income/cash flow assessments.
He has authored articles appearing in The Value Examiner, Practical Law, and Michigan CPA, and has presented at numerous business conferences.
Phone:248-823-1635
JD, The Ohio State University
MBA, Case Western Reserve University
BA, University of Rochester
Joseph Han has been employed as a REIT tax executive since 2014. His responsibilities include, among other things:
From 2001 to 2014, Mr. Han worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Merger and Acquisition tax director. His responsibilities included, among other things:
Since 2015, Mr. Han has taught as an adjunct assistant professor at Walsh and Madonna University in Michigan with responsibilities including various tax courses in underrate and masters programs.
Email:jhanx@walshcollege.edu
Phone:248-823-1635
JD, Michigan State University College of Law
BS, University of Michigan
ATT – Licensed Attorney
Eric R. Skinner is the associate area counsel for the Large Business and International Division of the IRS Office of Chief Counsel in Detroit, Michigan. The Office of Chief Counsel’s Large Business and International (LB&I) Division serves corporations, subchapter S corporations, and partnerships with assets greater than $10 million. These entities typically have large numbers of employees, deal with complicated issues involving tax law and accounting principles, and conduct their operations in an expanding global environment.
Skinner has been with the Office of Chief Counsel since 1995. He has extensive experience in tax litigation, criminal tax, corporate tax and international transactions. Skinner also serves as an IRS liaison to the Taxation Section of the Michigan State Bar. Prior to joining the IRS, Skinner was a tax attorney with the Detroit office of Deloitte and Touche. A graduate of Michigan State University College of Law, he also serves as an adjunct professor in the Tax LL.M. Program at Western Michigan University Cooley Law School.
Phone:248-823-1635
MST, Walsh College
JD, Wayne State University
BS in Business Administration, Wayne State University
ATT – Licensed Attorney
CPA – Certified Public Accountant
Mr. Skiba comes to Walsh with over 29 years of experience in taxation, including over 23 years of experience in public accounting. Prior to his current position as Managing Director in BDO’s State and Local Tax Practice, he worked in the utilities, manufacturing and technology industries. Mr. Skiba has extensive experience in indirect tax including sales & use tax and motor fuel excise tax.
He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants as well as the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants and is a member of the State Bar of Michigan. Mr. Skiba is a Certified Public Accountant and licensed attorney.
Email:sskiba@walshcollege.edu
Phone:248-823-1635
JD, Michigan State University College of Law
BA, University of Michigan
ATT – Licensed Attorney
Peter Arvant devotes his practice to complex commercial litigation with particular emphasis on contract disputes, shareholder disagreements, insurance coverage questions, and probate litigation. In addition to extensive experience in state and federal trial courts, Professor Arvant has argued cases in the Michigan Supreme Court, Michigan Court of Appeals, and the Federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.
He has also represented clients in litigation throughout the country, including Nevada, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, California, Illinois, Indiana, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and Arizona.
Email:parvant@walshcollege.edu
Phone:248-823-1635
DBA, Walden University
MA, Walsh College
MS, Walsh College
Email:mbelleman@walshcollege.edu
Phone:248-823-1635
MS, Michigan State University
BA, Michigan State University
CPA – Certified Public Accountant
Email:jdicic2@walshcollege.edu
Phone:248-823-1635
JD, Michigan State University College of Law
MST, Walsh College
MBA, Oakland University
BS, Oakland University
ATT – Licensed Attorney
CPA – Certified Public Accountant
Lee Sartori is a partner and practicing attorney with the law firm of Howard & Howard in its metro Detroit, Michigan office. The majority of Mr. Sartori’s practice is devoted to the areas of general corporate, commercial transactions, real estate and tax law.
He represents and counsels a number of individuals, and closely-held and publicly-traded businesses, engaged in a diverse array of industries on a wide variety of legal and business matters including mergers and acquisitions, transaction structuring, contract negotiations and drafting, licensing, financing, entity structuring, succession planning, estate and tax planning, shareholder and member disputes, and general corporate matters.
Mr. Sartori has made appearances on his clients’ behalf in various federal and state courts and has acted as an arbitrator in complex business dispute matters.
Mr. Sartori received a J.D., summa cum laude, from the Michigan State University College of Law, where he was the recipient of Jurisprudence Awards in Arbitration, Commercial Transactions, Constitutional Law, and Estate Planning & Drafting and other honors.
Mr. Sartori is a member of the American Bar Association and its sections on Business Law, International Law, and Taxation, and the State Bar of Michigan and its sections on Business Law, International Law, Real Property, and Taxation. He is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and its Division of Taxation, and the American Association of Attorney-Certified Public Accountants.
Mr. Sartori is an adjunct professor of law at Michigan State University College of Law and an adjunct professor, Business Law and Taxation Department, for Walsh’s graduate school of business. He has taught in excess of 50 semesters of graduate school education in corporate law and taxation. Mr. Sartori periodically teaches a course he designed in “business divorce” at Michigan State University College of Law entitled, “Closely-Held Business: Shareholder and Member Disputes.”
Mr. Sartori’s publications include: Communications Made to Tax Advisors for Tax Planning or Defending Tax Controversy Purposes: “When What You Say May Be Used Against You,” CCH State Tax Review, Vol. 60, Issue No. 31 (1999). Mr. Sartori is also acknowledged by the authors of Federal Tax Research 7th and 8th Editions (Raabe, Whittenburg, and Sanders, Thomson South-Western Publishing, 2005, 2008) for his contributions to their text.
Mr. Sartori is admitted to practice in the state courts of Michigan, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and the U.S. Tax Court.
Phone:248-823-1635
JD, Wayne State University Law School
BGS, University of Michigan
ATT – Licensed Attorney
Professor Benham has been in private practice since 1986 and is currently has a solo practice with an office in Bingham Farms, Michigan. In addition to her law degree she completed a Risk Management Course and Civil Mediation Training. Professor Benham serves as a hearing panelist for the Michigan Attorney Grievance Board.
Email:lbenham@walshcollege.edu
Phone:248-823-1635
LLM, University of Miami
JD, Detroit College of Law
BMA, University of Michigan
ATT – Licensed Attorney
Daniel Hoops has been a practicing attorney since 1995 and joined PNC Private Bank in December 2019 as a Senior Vice President. Prior to joining PNC, Dan was a Partner and founder of the Paesano, Akkashian, Apkarian lawfirm in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Daniel’s areas of expertise include estate, tax and business succession planning; film, television, and music development; complex probate and commercial litigation; and charitable giving. During his career, he has worked with a variety of clients in the finance and banking, automotive, construction, medical, and entertainment industries. In addition to servicing clients as a member of the Florida Bar, Dan’s clients have taken him to Australia and various countries throughout Asia and Europe. Daniel has been engaged as an expert witness and mediator in various probate and beneficiary disputes, including testifying in contested estate matter in Belgrade, Serbia.
Mr. Hoops is a frequent lecturer on e